Battery filling bottle



June 12, 1934. N. F. HAURY 1,962,816

BATTERY FILLING BOTTLE Filed June 11, 1931 Patented June 12, 1934 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE Ledyard-Haury partnership Company, Elyria,

Ohio, at

Application June 11, 1931, Serial No. 543,554

5 Claims.

This invention relates to devices for supporting bottles or the like and for dispensing liquid therefrom.

My invention has numerous uses but I have chosen to describe it as applied to water bottles from which water is dispensed to refill storage battery cells.

As is well known, water must be supplied to the cells of a storage battery after they have been in use for substantial periods. The common practice is to carry a bottle of distilled water to the battery and to fill the battery through a hose or the like associated in some manner with the bottle.

In most instances a storage battery is a part of the equipment of a motor vehicle and is so installed therein that access must be had thereto from the interior of the car. Furthermore the battery is usually housed in a box. Thus the battery is usually so poorly illuminated that it is difiicult to pour the replenishing Water into the relatively small inlet orifices provided for the purpose. In some cases it is necessary to illuminate the battery by means of a hand-operated flash lamp or the like to avoid spilling of the water over the battery and to avoid overflowing the battery by supplying too much Water thereto.

It is therefore one of the objects of my invention to provide an improved apparatus which may be applied to the water bottle and which, upon dispensing water from the bottle by the usual operation, will be operated automatically to illuminate the battery or the like into which the water is being dispensed.

Another object is to provide a suitable carrier for a water bottle provided with a dispensing nozzle and an electric lamp, the lamp being adapted to be automatically energized by the ordinary operation of applying the nozzle to the battery or the like to be watered.

Another object is to provide a carrier for water bottles or the like provided with a hinging hose, nozzle or like device out of which water from the bottle may be dispensed, and provided with an electric lamp adjacent the end of the nozzle adapted to be illuminated automatically by the operation of moving the nozzle or the like to its water-discharging position and to be extinguished upon moving the nozzle or the like to a non-dispensing position.

Other objects will be apparent to those skilled in, the art to which my invention appertains.

My invention is fully disclosed in the following description taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, in which:

Fig. 1 is'an elevational view of an embodiment of my invention illustrating in broken lines a Water bottle associated therewith, and illustrating a dispensing hose and nozzle which I may employ in a non-dispensing and in a dispensing position;

Fig. 2 is a view of the bottom of the carrier of Fig. 1 and taken approximately from the plane 2 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary view taken approximately from the plane 3 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 4 is a view taken approximately from the plane 4 of Fig. 3;

Fig. 5 is a sectional View taken approximately from the plane 5 of Fig. 3;

Fig. 6 is a fragmentary view taken approximately from the plane 6 of Fig. 3; and,

Fig. '7 is a longitudinal sectional view to an enlarged scale of a nozzle and handle piece which I may employ and shown in elevation in Fig. 1.

Referring to the drawing, I have shown at 1 a sheet metal base of inverted dish shape provided with an upstanding annular flange 2surrounding the periphery of a central perforation in the bottom 3 of the base. The perforation is covered by an internal plate 4 and between the plate 4 and the flange 2 is the disc-like head 5 of a rubber plug, the head 5 continuing upwardly in a cylindrical shank 6, the shank and head being adapted to'seal the mouth and neck of a water bottle '7 shown in broken lines in inverted position.

The weight of the bottle and the water is supported on the base 1 and the bottle is retained in its vertical position by a metal band 8 encircling the upper part of the bottle and clamped thereon by a bolt and nut device of known construction 9. The band 8 is supported and longitudinally spaced from the base 1 by a plurality such as three uprights 10-10 connected at one end to the base and at the other end to the band 8.

A bail 11 is hingedly connected as at 12 to the band 8 and as illustrated in Fig. 1, may be used to carry the bottle and its support, or, it may be rotated around the pivot 12 to permit removal of the bottle from the carrier.

A short piece of tubing 13 extends through the shank 6 of the plug and is connected to one end of a hose 14 at the other end of which is afiixed a tubular nozzle 15 which is preferably of rigid material. When the hose is in its generally depending position indicated in broken lines at 16, water may fiow out of the bottle through the hose 14 and out at the nozzle 15, and a stand pipe 1'7 extending through the shank 6 of the plug and extending through the interior of the bottle to a point adjacent its upper end or bottom permits air to enter the bottle to replace the water drawn therefrom.

The nozzle 15 is supported in a handle piece 18, preferably formed from bakelite or like insulating moldable material, and the handle piece is provided with a recess 19 in which is mounted by any suitable construction, a lamp socket 20 having a lamp bulb 21 therein and having circuit wires 22 connected thereto through a suitable passageway 23.

Means now to be described is provided by which the handle piece 18 may be clamped to the carrier to support the nozzle piece 15 in the elevated position of Fig. 1, in which position water ceases to flow, the clamp operating automatically to extinguish the lamp 21 when in said position and to illuminate it when the handle piece 18 is removed from the clamp in the act of lowering it to the water dispensing position illustrated in broken lines at 1-6. The said clamp comprises a stationary arm 25 formed from sheet metal, generally of U-shape, the closed end of the U being secured by a bolt 26 to the band 8' and insulated therefrom by suitable insulating washers or known like devices 2'7. A long leg 28 of the U projects laterally from the band 8 and is adapted toengage one side of the handle piece 18 when in clamped position as shown in Fig. 5. The short leg 29 of the U terminates at a hinge 30, whereby it is hingedly connected to a movable clamp element 31 adapted to move from the solid line to the broken line position of Fig. 5 and to be constrained toward the latter position by a tension spring 132, shown in Fig. 4, wound, about the pintle 33 of the hinge. The movable clamp element 31 is shaped similarly to the long leg 28 above described, so that the handle piece 18 is resiliently clamped therebetween, as plainly shown in Fig. 5 and as indicated in Fig. 1.

The movable clamp element 31 has a finger 32 projecting inwardly from the lower portion thereof formed to engage a rivet head 33 grounded on the adjacent one of the uprights 10 when the movable clutch element 31 is in the broken line position of Fig. 5, which position it automatically assumes when the handle piece 18 is removed from the supported clamp position illustrated in Figs. land 5. When the movable clamp element 31' is in the full-line position shown in Fig. 5, the finger 32 is spaced from the rivet 33, as shown in Fig. 5. An electric circuit to be described is broken between the rivet 33 and finger 32 when the handle piece is placed in the clamp and is made when removed therefrom to correspondingly extinguish and illuminate the lamp, and this circuit will now be described.

Housed within the base 1 is a dry cell 35, the negative pole of which is grounded on the frame of the structure by a clamp 36 which encircles the cell and is grounded thereto by a point or. projection 3'? on the clamp which engages the usual zinc cup in which the battery is constructed, the

' projection 37 being sharp enough to pierce any pasteboard paper or other covering with which the cell may be provided. The clamp 36 is secured to and grounded on the base 1 as by a screw ducted through a suitable perforation in the base 1 and is then conducted along the inner side longitudinally of the hose 14, finally ending in the portion 22 by which it is connected to the lamp 21. A return wire from the lamp, preferably enclosed within the same covering as the wire 40, returns parallel therewith and adjacent the housing or base 1 as at 42 is separated from the wire and is conducted along a support 10 as shown at 43 and finally as shown at Fig. 4 having a soldered connection as at 54 with the leg 29 of the clamp device.

The wire 43 may be secured to the upright 10 by clips 44 and the wire 40 may be secured to the hose 14 by clips 45.

In operation, the operator carries the device by means of the bail 11 to the battery in which water is to be renewed, and thenby grasping the handle piece 18, pulls it out of the clip device described, whereupon the movable clutch element 31 is moved from the solid line to the broken" line position of Fig. 5 and makes an electric contact between the rivet 33 and the finger 32. Thereupon current flows from the battery through the double wire 40 to and through the lamp 21 illuminating the same, back along the double wire 40, and then by way of the wire 43 to the stationary element 29, through the hinge connection to the finger 32, and by way of the rivet 33 to the frame of the device, which is connected by ground to the negative side of the cell, thus completing the circuit.

As indicated in Fig. 1 in broken lines, the lamp illuminates the discharging end of the nozzle piece 15 and parts adjacent thereto so that the stream of water may accurately be directed to the place where it is wanted. Upon replacing the handle piece in the clutch device above described, contact is automatically broken at the rivet 33 and the lamp is extinguished.

My invention is not limited to the exact'details of construction, shown and described. Many changes and modifications may be made within the scope and spirit of my invention without sacrificing its advantages.

For example, whereas I have illustrated. and described specifically a switch device mounted on the bottle supporting frame and adapted to be operated to break the lamp circuit by performing the manual operation of attaching the lamp carrying block 18 to the frame, my invention comprehends the reverse arrangement in which the switch is mounted in or on the lamp carrying block 18 and is operated to break the lamp circuit when the block is attached to the frame.

It is believed that such reverse arrangement will be clearly understood by those skilled in the art without additional illlustration or description. I

I claim:

1. In a device of the class described, a portable water receptacle, a support therefor, a movable discharging conduit communicating with the interior of the water receptacle and having a lamp secured adjacent the end thereof, an electric cell carried by the support, an electric circuit for illuminating the lamp by the cell, an attachment device on the support including a pair of fingers adapted to receive the conduit to support it in non-discharging position, one of the fingers being pivoted adjacent the irmer end and resiliently held toward the other of the fingers, a contact member positioned adjacent the pivoted finger so. as to, be engaged by the' pivoted finger to complete the circuit through the lamp when the finger moves'inwardly and to become disengaged to open the circuit when the finger moves outwardly.

2. In a battery filling bottle construction, a liquid containing bottle carrier, a flexible conduit communicating with the bottle interior, a resilient clamp on an elevated portion of the carrier, a nozzle projecting from the end of the flexible conduit, a housing projecting laterally from the nozzle piece and spaced inwardly from the end thereof and engaged by the clamp device to support the nozzle in a non-discharging position, and a lamp in the housing disposed between the nozzle piece and the carrier at a substantial distance inwardly from the end of the nozzle piece, the housing being adapted to be removed from the clamp and, together with the flexible conduit moved to a lower liquid dispensing position with the housing on the upper side of the nozzle piece and with the lamp when energized adapted to cast illumination downwardly around the end of the nozzle piece to illuminate portions of the battery filling orifice to which the nozzle piece is applied, a battery, a lamp circuit, and switch contacts associated with the clamp device operable to deenergize the lamp circuit upon engagement of the clamp by the housing.

3. In a device of the class described, a portable water receptacle, a support therefor, a movable discharging conduit communicating with the interior of the water receptacle and having a lamp secured adjacent the end thereof, an electric cell carried by the support, an electric circuit for illuminating the lamp by the cell, an attachment device on an elevated portion of the support adapted to receive the conduit to support it in the non-discharging position, and means whereby on movement of the conduit from said support to the discharging position water from the receptacle will flow out of the discharge conduit and whereby the circuit to the lamp is completed to illuminate the lamp.

4. In a device of the class described, a portable water receptacle, a support therefor, a movable discharging conduit communicating with the interior of the water receptacle and having a lamp secured adjacent the end thereof, an electric cell carried by the support, an electric circuit for illuminating the lamp by the cell, an attachment device on an elevated portion of the support adapted to receive the conduit to support it in the non-discharging position, and means whereby on movement of the conduit from said support to the discharging position water from the receptacle will flow out of the discharge conduit and whereby the circuit to the lamp is completed to illuminate the lamp, said means including a switch associated with the attachment device and operable to close the circuit on removal of the discharge conduit from the attachment device, and to open the circuit when the discharge conduit is supported by the attachment device.

5. In a device of the class described, a portable water receptacle, a support therefor, a movable discharging conduit communicating with the interior of the receptacle, a handle piece secured to the discharging conduit adjacent the end thereof, a lamp disposed in said handle piece, an electric cell carried by said support, an electric circuit for illuminating the lamp by the cell, an attachment device on an elevated portion of the support adapted to receive the handle piece to support the discharging conduit in the non-discharging position, and means whereby on movement of the conduit from said support to the discharging position water from the receptacle will flow out of the discharge conduit, and whereby the circuit to the lamp is completed to illuminate the lamp.

NORMAN F. I-IAURY. 

